Tony HillermanListening WomanThis review is based upon the German translation by Friedrich A. Hofschuster. Christina says:
Hosteen Tso and Anna Atcitty are brutally killed during a Navajo ritual. The murderer doesn't notice that Listening Woman Margaret Cigaret had been sitting a short distance away from the hut. Months later Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is investigating the case again because he doesn't want to go to a boy scout meeting and is looking for a man who wanted to run him over in cold blood. He finds a link to another unsolved case and realizes that the white FBI officer who questioned Margaret Cigaret didn't understand what she had to say. Leaphorn sets out to the wilderness of the reservation in order to investigate those new findings. What I liked best about the third volume in Hillerman's series about Navajo police officer Joe Leaphorn was the way he managed to combine the philosophy of the Navajos and the investigation. Their desire to live in harmony with nature is the driving force behind Leaphorn’s efforts. He wants to solve the cases in order to restore harmony. Hillerman describes impressively how the gap between the two cultures makes it impossible for the white investigators to solve the mystery behind the case, though he never gets on a soapbox or judges the cultures. The spiritual world of the Navajos unfolds before the eye of the reader just like the landscape of the American southwest. Listening Woman will certainly make you discover a different world, even though the solution is a bit dissatisfying, the lose ends being tied up in a somewhat strained, artificial manner. |
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